S U S S E X
By Laurence Elphick
push for the Premiership…the need for
another striker.
So enter new signing Jari Skalak from FK
Mlada Boleslav in the Czech Republic
for an undisclosed fee. The 23 year old
signed for the Seagulls on deadline day.
Is he the answer? Only time will tell, but
as he’s not an out and out Number 9,
the search has extended in to the loan
window. Doing the social media rounds
on deadline day was the rumour that
Leonardo Ulloa would be loaned back to
Brighton by Premiership league leaders,
Leicester City. Most Albion fans I would
suspect, would have been delighted
to have the man from Argentina back,
but alas it was not to be. If Skalak can
produce the sort of form that Ulloa
showed, then who knows what could
happen?
Photograph: Paul Hazelwood
Brighton and Hove Albion
After a tremendous start
to the season, which
saw the Seagulls
unbeaten in the
Championship for
21 games and talk
of promotion to the
Premiership was on
everyone’s lips,
a 3-0 defeat against Middlesbrough at the
Amex, preceded by two consecutive 2-2
draws follow